Permit this only on condition:

1) Special responsibility of certain local comrades.

2) Special measures for disarmament.

3) Do not release the especially dangerous (lists through the Cheka).

Written in May, not before the 27th,

First published in 1942

in Lenin Collection XXXIV

Printed from the manuscript

* The document bears a note by L. A. Fotiyeva: "in the protocol or only in the telephone message?", in which V. I. Lenin underlined three times the words "only in the telephone message". — Ed.